Ubisoft Announces Mumbai, Odesa Studios
Ubisoft is adding two new studios to its roster of development teams, with offices in Mumbai, India and Odesa, Ukraine being established.
The Odesa studio will open in addition to the already established Kiev Ubisoft studio, managed by Kiev studio manager Adrian Serbanescu. The Odesa office joins the seven other studios working on Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon franchise. 10 people are currently working on the team, and Ubisoft plans to expand with 60 more members of the Odesa team within the next two years.
The Mumbai team will report to the managing director of the Pune, India studio, Jean-Philippe Pieuchot. The two studios are set to work closely together on the development of AAA console games and development of Ubisoft's live services. Pune's previous work includes the South Park: The Fractured But Whole Nintendo Switch port, as well as the upcoming Far Cry 3 remaster included as part of Far Cry 5's season pass.
Deadpool 2 Trailer Confirms Terry Crews Is Playing This X-Force Character
The latest trailer for Deadpool 2 seems to finally confirm who Terry Crews is playing in the sequel: Jesse Bedlam.
The trailer shows Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) recruiting members for X-Force, a new team of anti-heroes. The group in the comics usually includes characters like Cable (Josh Brolin), Domino (Zazie Beetz), and Wolverine, and it looks as though Crews is starring as the longtime X-Force character Jesse Bedlam.
In a quick shot in the trailer, you can spot Deadpool going through a few headshots for potential X-Force members, and one of those headshots feature Terry Crews with the name Bedlam. Check out the screenshot below.
You can spot the name Bedlam in the far right, screenshot via the latest trailer, which briefly later includes Crews' headshot.
Nintendo Switch Getting Third-Party Joy-Con With Traditional D-Pad
A third-party hardware maker is producing a joy-con peripheral with a traditional D-Pad for the Nintendo Switch.
The device is manufactured by Hori and will replace the left Joy-Con controller.
According to Famitsu, the peripheral will trade the motion-sensing capabilities of a typical Joy-Con for the D-pad, making it useful for those with serious ambitions in Switch fighting games that demand precise inputs.
The Joy-Con with D-Pad, via Famitsu
God of War’s One-Shot Style Rejected by Tomb Raider Game Reboot
God of War director Cory Barlog had a single-shot game idea long before God of War and, having it been rejected for the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot.
As IGN noted in its recent God of War preview, the game's use of a single, never-cutting shot for the entire game appears to be an affecting device for absorbing the player into the world. However, in an interview with The Daily Star, Cory Barlog revealed that this technique was not only not a new idea but one he’d had rejected previously.
60 Images From the Deadpool 2 Trailer
A packed new trailer for Deadpool 2 just dropped, and with it, dozens of tiny peeks at the upcoming superhero-comedy movie, from new (anti-)heroes to unlicensed use of Professor X's chair.
Here's almost every shot from the trailer in a single place, for you to cast your clue-finding eyes across:
If you want to see all that in motion, here's the new trailer - let us know what you spot in the comments below!
We don't have much longer to wait for the whole thing - Deadpool 2 will be out on May 18, and we hear it's getting better test screening scores than the first movie.
7 Must Play Switch Games Announced During Nintendo’s 2018 Spring Nindies Showcase
Nintendo held its latest Nindies Showcase this week and revealed a wide variety of new indie games for Nintendo Switch owners to look forward to in 2018. Here's a rundown of seven must play games that were announced for Switch during Nintendo's 2018 Spring Nindies Showcase.
Okay, so we know that Nintendo announced this one a little while ago, but we finaly got our hands on it! Travis Strikes Again isn't exactly No More Heroes 3, but the sooner you become OK with that, the sooner you can appreciate it for what it really is: a great excuse for Travis Touchdown to invade a bunch of fun, arcadey bite-sized games on your Nintendo Switch.
The two-player demo we played this week (with the game's creator, Suda51, no less) was a fun and futuristic beat 'em up where players teamed up against waves of video game glitch inspired bad guys using Travis' signature beam katana light sword as well as a set of equally insane special attacks. When your beam katana loses its power after enough use, you'll click down the stick and shake your Joy-Con to recharge it, resulting in you and your co-op partner grinning at the craziness of it all. We only played one of the several games that will end up in Travis Strikes Again, but and this title is definitely shaping up to be something very special (and insane) for Switch owners. — Brian Altano
Rare Studio Head on Sea of Thieves Post-Launch Plans
Rare has high hopes for Sea of Thieves, and according to studio head Craig Duncan, the development team intends to continue to support the game post-launch to make it "as big and successful as it can be."
On the latest episode of our monthly interview show IGN Unfiltered, Duncan said the studio "of course" has a roadmap and plan for the future of Sea of Thieves. "There's more stuff we want to add to Sea of Thieves," Duncan said, noting the team "definitely want
to be reactive" to fixing any balancing issues and bugs that might arise.
"Every single person I've talked to that launched a service-based game tells me, 'Hey, you think you know what you've gotta do—actually when you launch there'll be a load of different stuff,'" he explained, noting he's well aware there will probably be plenty of stuff the team wasn't aware of prior to release that they'll need to address after launch.
Cyberpunk 2077 Will Likely Be at E3 2018, Won’t Launch With Multiplayer
Cyberpunk 2077 will be shown in some capacity at this year's E3, and won't be launching with a multiplayer mode.
Speaking at CD Projekt's financial results conference, company president Adam Kiciński was asked about what could be shown at the LA gaming conference. "We haven't announced that yet," he replied, "we will announce it just before."
While there's a chance that that announcement could be 'we aren't showing anything at E3', it seems likely that we'll see a glimpse of the elusive RPG this June.
As has become a pattern with Cyberpunk details, there's not a great deal to go on, but Kiciński confirmed that the launch version of the game will be a single-player experience - but wouldn't rule out different plans for its expansions:
LEGO Tron: Legacy Set Brings Buildable Light Cycles
Based on a fan-made LEGO Idea, a Tron: Legacy Light Cycle is now a reality and is only a few days away from release.
LEGO has announced the new set will be available on March 31 for $34.99. The 230-piece set includes two buildable Light Cycles, three minifigures — Sam Quinn, Quorra, and Rinzler — and a Tron Grid/display base for the vehicles.
LEGO Tron: Legacy set
The set was pitched as part of the LEGO Ideas program in 2015. The base can be used to show off the build or split in two for use as a race between the two cycles. The set also includes Identity Discs, and translucent blue light-style elements like the vehicles' power streams.
John Boyega Wants To Produce An Attack On Titan Movie
Whilst promoting Pacific Rim Uprising, John Boyega has laid out his ideal, live action Attack on Titan movie.
John Boyega has been touring the globe to promote the upcoming film, but as well as Kaiju smashing mecha, he also spoke about his love for Attack on Titan. In an interview with MTV News, Boyega revealed that he’d be up for producing a live action Attack on Titan movie, and his vision for it.
Whilst discussing how he’d do an adaptation of the hugely popular anime and manga, he noted that he’d, "definitely cast a bunch of Japanese actors,” and that his adaptation would look, “epic.”